Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Brexit: Trade in Food
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Brexit: Trade in Food
"Order. Two points. First, interventions must be quite short. Secondly, I am sorry to pull the hon. Gentleman up again, but it is an absolute rule in this place that hon. Members must refer to one another as “the hon. Member”, “him”, “the Minister”, “she” and so on. Hon. Members …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Brexit: Trade in Food
"The question is, That this House has considered the Third Report of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Brexit: Trade in Food, HC 348, and the Government response—..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Brexit: Trade in Food
"I beg your pardon. Mr Parish can indeed conclude if he wishes. That is quite right...."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 May 2018
Reduction of Plastic Waste in the Marine Environment
"I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing this extremely important debate. Before he moves off the subject of cups—this may be a matter that you wish to raise with the House authorities, Sir Edward—is it not absurd that we are having this debate surrounded by non-reusable plastic cups? Surely, …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 May 2018
Reduction of Plastic Waste in the Marine Environment
"I am puzzled by the bottle return scheme. Of course, on the face of it, it is a good thing: in so far as bottles are recyclable, we can bring them back into use and that is great. However, what happens to the non-recyclable materials gathered back through those means? …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 May 2018
Reduction of Plastic Waste in the Marine Environment
"On a point of order, Sir Edward. The point that my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond Park (Zac Goldsmith) has just made is terribly important. It is hard to understand why the House authorities have not taken note of our calls for the abolition of plastics in Committees. Is …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 7th March 2018
Asked by:
James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs; and what the value of those contracts was in each of the last three years.
Answered by George Eustice
a) Core Defra currently has two direct contracts with ‘public cloud-hosting’ providers:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) from January 2017
- Microsoft Azure from July 2017 via Defra’s Microsoft Enterprise Licence Agreement
The expenditure is as follows:
- AWS - £35,561.96 (2017/2018)
- Microsoft Azure – Zero spend to date
b) None
Written Question
Thursday 20th July 2017
Asked by:
James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that no decision will be taken on Marine Aggregate Dredging Application MLA/2016/00227, South Goodwin Sands, Area 521 by the Marine Management Organisation until the Secretary of State for Defence has come to a decision to designate the area under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 and the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a determination on whether to designate the Goodwin Sands as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (PMRA 1986) on 2 June 2017. The MoD determined that due to the size and dimensions of a controlled site it would prevent any whole scale designation of the area of the Goodwin Sands.
Written Question
Thursday 20th July 2017
Asked by:
James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that no decision will be taken on Marine Aggregate Dredging Application MLA/2016/00227, South Goodwin Sands, Area 521 by the Marine Management Organisation until the Secretary of State for Defence has come to a decision on the application made by Marinet Ltd on 22 February 2017, to designate all or part of area 521 as a controlled area under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a determination on whether to designate the Goodwin Sands as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (PMRA 1986) on 2 June 2017. The MoD determined that due to the size and dimensions of a controlled site it would prevent any whole scale designation of the area of the Goodwin Sands.